WhiteBoard Chat - an ASP.NET MVC Chat program

Project Description
This project was for University, the requirement was for a web based chat room for developers (hence the developer object)

Quick setup - http://whiteboardchat.codeplex.com/documentation
Also remember to look at the down loads page - there is a report too :)

Technology Stack

• NHibernate (using Linq to NHibernate)
• FluentNHibernate
• Castle Windsor
• AutoMapper
• ASP.NET MVC
• JQuery

Patterns

• Specification
• Repository
• ViewModel
• Dependency Injection
• MVC
• ORM

NOTE
Open Systems Application Development Module (Coventry University), SmithTechnology does not exist in this context

Architecture Overview
Whiteboard uses MVC for structure


for more information please read the report.

Screen Shot
The following shows 2 users logged in chatting to one another. the use of JQuery allows for a nice interaction, where the new posts are added to the users screen at a time interval.